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OVERVIEW Power BI has launched a new preview visual called Sparklines. This visual is a popular feature requested by Power BI users. Sparklines is a tiny and simple chart that could be shown inside a single cell on a table or matrix. This chart will help us see trends of data in a quick way, at the same time allowing us to highlight the maximum and minimum values on a series of data. Below is the example of Profit and Sales Sparklines by Month (-red marked). Note that Profit

Plant crop yield is dependent on a variety of variables, including climate, soil management, water usage, etc. First project step was to

The Internet of Things, or IoT for short, is known to lessen the burdens on humans. IoT has been proven useful in many industries and...

More and more companies are starting to use payment gateway, what does this mean to the market of e-commerce and related industries? What...

AI applications in palm oil production: FFB grading, oil-loss prediction, yield forecasting, and plantation monitoring.

In a company with many employees, it can be a hassle for BI professionals to handle providing analysis for all problems. So what do companies turn to nowadays to fix this? Many companies have started to introduce the concept of Self-Service Business Intelligence into their workplace. Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash What is Self Service Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence (BI) is the field of gaining insight from data and which helps users make their choices as t

What if someone told you there was a way to predict what could happen to your company in the future? Would you want to know? With the...

Kitameraki’s engagement with a client working in the palm oil industry has brought many interesting insights and results. Today, in the last part of our three-part series, we discuss the uses of analytics to improve loose fruit collection and ultimately bring an additional 12M USD impact in our client’s turnover. Business Analytics 101 In short, business analytics is the use of a company’s data that allows them to find efficiencies, discover relevant information and make bet

Most businesses want to be a category leader and they dream of being the next unicorn. Needless to say, they require intensive business growth to reach these goals. A key piece to this development is a reliable, optimized Business Intelligence (BI) platform. As more organizations turn toward data-driven decision making, it is important to stay on top of their game. This comes with the acknowledgement that it is not only about gathering data, but also about formulating strateg

Small Multiples is a new feature from Power BI that can create a group of detailed bar/column to give clean visual placement to the chart with stacked parameters. Users can see on Pic.1, the visual of the sales amount now divided by country parameter into six (2x3) different bar charts. As for Pic.2, the country parameter is used as a legend and creates a stacked bar chart for sales amount visual. The usage of small multiples for Pic.1 gives an impression of a clean spread, c

PowerBI is analytics software that provides functions to visualize data with user-friendly interfaces. Photo by Agence Olloweb on Unsplash With all their amazing features, this article goes deep into one we find quite useful. That feature is called the Search Bar. Its function is to make navigation on PowerBI easier. Pic1. Basic Search Bar The main function of the Search Bar is to suggest the User for the next action. Then User will be directed to the said action panel or hav